1.Athena often appears in disguise, most significantly as Mentor, the family friend and adviser who instructs Telemachus in his father's absence. She is also adept at changing the appearance of humans. When Odysseus returns to Ithaca and needs a disguise in order to gather information without revealing his true identity, Athena makes him over to look like an old beggar, even wrinkling his skin and taking the fire out of his eyes.
2.Athena’s mother is Metis: goddess of wisdom. And Zeus’ first wife. Before Athena is born, Zeus swallows her mother, Metis, to avoid the happiness of a prophecy that Metis would give birth to a son with greater power than his father.
3.She was the patron goddess of Athens. Her symbol was the owl. She was originally the Great Goddess in the form of a bird. By the late Classic, she had come to be regarded as a goddess of wisdom.
4.Both Athena and Poseidon wanted to be patron deity of Athens. To prove her worthiness for the honor, Athena caused an olive tree to spring up on the citadel of Athens, the Acropolis. Poseidon sought to outdo her by striking the ground with his trident and causing a spring of water to gush forth.
5.A daughter of Zeus and a "patron of human ingenuity," Athena is the one who first sent Odysseus on his wanderings as part of the punishment for a desecration of her temple by one of the Greek warriors at Troy.
6. Athena is the goddess of wisdom, war, the arts, industry, justice and skill. Athena is the favorite child of Zeus.
7. Invented the bridle, which permittted man to tame horses, the trumpet, the flute, the pot, the rake, the plow, the yoke, the ship, and the chariot.
8. Athena is sometimes called Pallas Athena after her childhood friend. "They say that after Athene's birth, she was reared by Triton, who had a daughter named Pallas. Both girls cultivated the military life, which once led them into contentious dispute. As Pallas was about to give Athene a whack, Zeus skittishly held out the aegis, so that she glanced up to protect herself, and thus was wounded by Athene and fell. Extremely saddened by what had happened to Pallas, Athene fashioned a wooden likeness of her, and round its breast tied the aegis which had frightened her, and set the statue beside Zeus and paid it honour.
9. Athena has no children.
10. Athena has a city named after her because she is so strong.
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1.Athena often appears in disguise, most significantly as Mentor, the family friend and adviser who instructs Telemachus in his father's absence. She is also adept at changing the appearance of humans. When Odysseus returns to Ithaca and needs a disguise in order to gather information without revealing his true identity, Athena makes him over to look like an old beggar, even wrinkling his skin and taking the fire out of his eyes.
2.Athena’s mother is Metis: goddess of wisdom. And Zeus’ first wife. Before Athena is born, Zeus swallows her mother, Metis, to avoid the happiness of a prophecy that Metis would give birth to a son with greater power than his father.
3.She was the patron goddess of Athens. Her symbol was the owl. She was originally the Great Goddess in the form of a bird. By the late Classic, she had come to be regarded as a goddess of wisdom.
4.Both Athena and Poseidon wanted to be patron deity of Athens. To prove her worthiness for the honor, Athena caused an olive tree to spring up on the citadel of Athens, the Acropolis. Poseidon sought to outdo her by striking the ground with his trident and causing a spring of water to gush forth.
5.A daughter of Zeus and a "patron of human ingenuity," Athena is the one who first sent Odysseus on his wanderings as part of the punishment for a desecration of her temple by one of the Greek warriors at Troy.
6. Athena is the goddess of wisdom, war, the arts, industry, justice and skill. Athena is the favorite child of Zeus.
7. Invented the bridle, which permittted man to tame horses, the trumpet, the flute, the pot, the rake, the plow, the yoke, the ship, and the chariot.
8. Athena is sometimes called Pallas Athena after her childhood friend.
"They say that after Athene's birth, she was reared by Triton, who had a daughter named Pallas. Both girls cultivated the military life, which once led them into contentious dispute. As Pallas was about to give Athene a whack, Zeus skittishly held out the aegis, so that she glanced up to protect herself, and thus was wounded by Athene and fell. Extremely saddened by what had happened to Pallas, Athene fashioned a wooden likeness of her, and round its breast tied the aegis which had frightened her, and set the statue beside Zeus and paid it honour.
9. Athena has no children.
10. Athena has a city named after her because she is so strong.
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The reason why i chose to use the blue-ish green text color is because Athena is the goddess of wisdom and that is the wisdom color.